On 07/06/2016 07:23, Laube, Ulrich wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have tried TL16 on different computers running Linux by now and one thing I
> noticed is the following:
>
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \begin{document}
> \immediate\write18{uname -s > "foobar"}
> \end{document}
>
> With
>
> pdflatex --shell-escape test.tex
>
> the file foobar is created. With
>
> lualatex --shell-escape test.text
>
> it is not. Can someone confirm this?
>
> This seems to break (at least)
> minted.sty (which tries to do \write18{which "pygmentize" && touch
> \jobname.aex})
> and
> ifplatform.sty.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Uli Laube
With the latest LuaTeX \write18 is no longer 'special'. The LaTeX team
have a new package shellesc to address this.
Joseph
